The Brazilian state
Subtitle: debate and agenda
By: edited by Mauricio Font and Laura Randall
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780739167311; 9780739168899
Subjects: Politics and government; Economic policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Congresses; Social conditions; Economic conditions
Description: "The Brazilian State Debate and Agenda examines the centralizing legacies of the Vargas Era (1930-1945) through the Lula Government. The volume opens with a discussion of Brazil's experience with statism since the Vargas Era and continues with a study of liberalizing reforms since the early 1990s, and trends since 2006"--

"The Brazilian State : Debate and Agenda is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies Series. This book is a collection of essays from the conference The Brazilian State: Paths and Prospects of Dirigisme and Liberalization held at The Graduate Center, City University of New York in November 2009. The Brazilian State explores the changing roles, relations with society, and overall impact of the contemporary Brazilian State. It probes the relationship between reform processes, institutional development, policy effectiveness, and economic impact since the 1930s. The 16 chapters by scholars from Brazil and the United States contribute to the understanding of various policy areas in an emerging and fast-growing country. Collectively, the papers probe the relationship between state reform, institutional development, policy effectiveness, and economic dynamics since the 1930s, and provide analyses of issues that will be the center of debate in the presidency of the newly-elected Dilma Rousseff"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Brazilian state since Vargas / Joao Paulo M. Peixoto; title: State developmentalism : continuity and uncertainty / Renato Boschi; title: New directions in public policy and state-society relations / Glauco Arbix and Scott B. Martin; title: Crisis and beyond : responses and prospects / Eiiti Sato; title: Bureaucrats, parties, and interest groups / Braga Martes; title: Political reform : a never ending story / David Fleischer; title: Civil society discourses and practices in Porto Alegre / J. Ricardo Tranjan; title: Pension reform in Brazil : addressing a social pact / Jose Roberto Savoia; title: Feminism, the state, and gender equality / Lia Zanotta Machado; title: Nation-state consolidation and cultural patrimony / John F. Collins; title: The financial services industry / Fernando Sotelino; title: Regulations and compliance : anti-money laundering / Monica Arruda de Almeida; title: Financialization, crisis, and a new mania in Brazil / Elaine da Silveira Leite; title: Brazil and the transatlantic community / Thomas J. Trebat; title: Regional integration : political uses of energy policy / Christine Gustafson and Leslie Elliott Armijo.